Law Schools and Students

Law Schools

Law school members of the IEL have one representative on the IEL’s Advisory Board, who is entitled to attend the Annual Oil & Gas Conference and the various Advisory Board events there free of charge. The Advisory Board representative can also nominate two students to attend most of IEL’s programs throughout the year free of registration fees.

Each year, the IEL organizes a special conference for law schools and law students, held on the campus of one of its members. The first conference was hosted by the University of Tulsa in March, 2013, and the second took place at the LSU Law Center in April, 2014. The 2015 conference was held in March at the South Texas College of Law in Houston and in 2016 it was held at The University of Oklahoma College of Law. The 2017 program was held at Texas A&M University School of Law in Fort Worth and the 2018 program will be held at The University of Houston Law Center on April 12 and 13.

Members

Duquesne University School of Law

LSU Law School

Oklahoma City University School of Law

Penn State Law

Queen Mary University of London

Rutgers University School of Law - Camden

SMU Dedman School of Law

South Texas College of Law - Houston

Texas A&M University School of Law

Texas Tech University School of Law

The University of Texas at Austin School of Law

Thurgood Marshall School of Law

Tulane University Law School

University of Alberta Faculty of Law

University of Arkansas School of Law

University of Colorado Law School

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

University of Dundee

University of Houston Law Center

University of Kansas School of Law

University of Mississippi School of Law

University of New Mexico School of Law

University of North Dakota School of Law

University of Oklahoma College of Law

University of Tulsa College of Law

University of Waikato

University of Wyoming College of Law

Washburn University School of Law

West Virginia University College of Law

Law Students

Law students are encouraged to attend all IEL conferences. If your school is an IEL law school member, it can nominate two students to attend most IEL programs free of tuition fees (unfortunately we cannot offer travel or accommodation expenses), and if you are nominated you will be entitled to all the privileges of a conference delegate such as meals, written materials, and access to online materials.

If your school is not an IEL member, or if your school has already nominated two students to attend free of charge, you can still register for a conference at the student rate (usually $125 for a one day conference, and $150 for two days) and receive all the privileges of a conference delegate.

In addition, when space permits, any law student can attend any IEL program free of charge “on audit”, but in that case will not be entitled to delegate privileges.

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Careers in Energy Law Videos

The IEL has prepared two short videos in which a number of practicing lawyers are asked to describe what they enjoy and find satisfying about their careers in energy law, and also to talk about how they decided at law school or later that energy law was going to be their specialty of choice. Designed to assist law students and young lawyers who may be considering the oil and gas or other energy industry components either for employment or for specialization, these short productions will be useful to professors and careers advisory staff at law schools, as well as to young lawyers in the early stages of their careers.

The first video, Beyond Law School, is intended to give law students a flavor of life as an energy attorney, and reasons why they might consider energy law as a career. The second, In Practice, describes the importance of this sector of legal work, as well as the excitement and job satisfaction found by lawyers working there.

The IEL Hartrick Scholar Writing Competition

The IEL offers an annual writing prize of $2,500 for law students. As well as the cash prize, the winner will be invited to attend that year’s Annual Oil & Gas Law Conference and Law School Symposium, expenses paid.

The 2018 winner of the IEL Hartrick Scholar Writing Competition is Abby Fox. Abby is a second year student at The University of Alabama School of Law.

Abby’s paper was entitled Policy Approaches to Deploying Energy Storage: Lessons from California and South Australia. Abby’s winning paper will be published in the Institute for Energy Law’s Proceedings of the 69th Annual Institute on Oil & Gas Law published by LexisNexis.

Abby received $2,500 and attended the IEL’s 69th Annual Oil & Gas Law Conference on February 15-16, 2018, with expenses paid by IEL.

Other finalists for the prize included:

Jacqueline Llinas, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, for the paper Electric Resource Planning in Colorado: Scenario Panning for Changing Dynamics in the Electricity Sector.

Brent Marshall, Florida State University College of Law, for the paper From Land or From Air: Why a Unified Energy Resource Scheme is Necessary When the Answer is Both.

Brittany Ryan, University of Colorado Law School, for the paper Municipal-Owned Microgrids in Colorado: An Alternative to Forming a Municipal Electric Utility.

Danny Wicoff, University of Houston Law Center, for the paper Where Does the Wind Blow?: Challenged to Offshore Wind Development in the United States.

Chelsea Wilson, Penn State Law, for the paper Victorian Ban on Fracking.

Call for Student Papers to Become the IEL Hartrick Scholar for 2019

The IEL Hartrick Scholar Writing Competition: The Institute for Energy Law of The Center for American and International Law announces its 2019 Hartrick Scholar writing competition. All eligible students are invited to participate.

Eligible Students and Topics: Students enrolled in law school anywhere in the world as of December 2018, and seeking a first degree in law, such as a juris doctor, LL. B. or an equivalent, are eligible to submit an article for consideration in the IEL Hartrick Scholar competition. The general subject for this year’s competition is any topic related to energy development. This includes, for example, topics concerning oil and gas law, alternative energy resources, energy regulation, and environmental regulation of the energy industries.

The article can be any work prepared by the student while enrolled in law school and can include prior works prepared for a law journal or a law school course, so long as the submitted version complies with the submission guidelines. The Hartrick Scholar Judging Committee will select one or more outstanding submissions that they deem worthy of recognition.

Submission Guidelines: The article must be submitted electronically to the Hartrick Scholar Judging Committee, at the address listed below, on or before December 7, 2018. The article should not exceed 8,000 words including footnotes (this approximates 40 double-spaced pages of text and footnotes or 25 printed pages). Footnotes should be in Blue Book format and placed at the bottom of the page where the footnoted text appears. The article should be submitted in pdf format accompanied by a cover email message that contains the following information: (1) your name; (2) the title of your article; (3) the law school where you are currently enrolled; (4) your year at law school (in 2018-19); (5) your mailing address; (6) your telephone number, preferably cell phone; and (7) your email address. The article should NOT contain your name, law school, or any other identifying information. The winning paper will be published in the 70th Annual Proceedings of the Institute on Oil & Gas Law; therefore if the article has been published elsewhere, the submission must include permission to publish the article from the original publisher.

Selection of the 2019 Hartrick Scholar: The Hartrick Scholar selected by the Judging Committee will be notified on February 1, 2019. The Scholar will receive a $2,500 cash award at the Institute for Energy Law’s 70th Annual Oil & Gas Law Conference to be held February 21-22, 2019, in Houston, Texas. Selection as the Hartrick Scholar includes, in addition to the $2,500 cash award, reimbursement of the cost of travel to attend the Annual Conference in Houston.